no country for old men

NCFOM deserved it. Nice win.
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The shock of the Oscars for me was seeing Cormac McCarthy there.

He is quite a recluse. Seems the Cohen's have brought him out.

I still want to see a movie made from "Blood Meridian."
 
went and saw this movie at AMC's all the best pic noms all day thing on the 23thrd.

Michael Clayton first, good traditional hollywood movie with traditional ending, two snaps up.

TWWB second, great movie, the ending meh, made in Texas
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two snaps up in a circle.

Atonement, meh, but it was emotionally Little Miss Sunshine in reverse. meh

Juno, great "little" movie.

and then after having eatin 15 bags of popcorn

NCFOM.

Great movie, perfectly understandable, without reading the book FIRST, the car crash nearly made me **** my pants, that was TOTALLY unexpected. The only thing I didn't really understand was the scene in the motel room with TLJ at the end, but that really didn't matter as I was caught up in the story and the tension was palpable.

as to why Chigurth went to the wife's house to kill her, and why some of y'all didn't understandt why he would do that, please read The Right Stuff to understand. This guy had "the right stuff" in spades, he thought himself invincible and that he would not get caught. makes perfect sense.

and the other problems that 94 in particular had about criminals being smarter than cops and being omnipitent, dude, you don't know jack about criminials and their thought processes and their smarts and the fact that some of them are "smarter" than cops.

Or at least appear to be so over a short time, the cops have one advantage and that is TIME, cops got all the time in the world to catch criminals but over a short time they can be very baffled and outsmarted and criminals can have free reign over them, this is reality.

my ex-bil John Franklin Bailey (google it) ran the houston cops ragged for two years jfb stole 650,000 from an ATM reloading truck (university savings) that he had been driving before he was laid off in the s&l crisis (never convicted on that, they still don't know who did it but JFB was pretty dang flush there for a while after the robbery), got caught raping a 12 yr old girl by a ft bend cty sheriff that was tailing him out in the boonies, his mom put up his bail on that and JFB got out went on a crime spree in Houston, called the cops on their personal phone and taunted them, posed as cops to rob nightclubs, kidnapped a guy when the cops had him surrounded in an apt complex in SW houston, cop choppers, news choppers, the whole shebang and JFB got away and was only apprehended because the detective convinced him that if he saw him again he was gonna shoot JFB's *** dead dead dead the next time he saw him and he didn't give a **** about the consequences JFB turned himself in in Comal co three days later and is currently a guest of the state of Texas, and it dosen't look like he will get out any time soon, time and ruthlessness is on the cops' side., John wasn't particularly smart or dumb but he was clever and he ran HPD and Harris and Ft Bend co sherrifs ragged for a while.

This movie takes place over a short, very short period of time. this Chigurth and all the other baddies can run wild without fear of apprehension except by a fluke, and when AC did get apprehended he handled the situation and was no worse for wear from it. that of evil criminal nvincibility part of the movie was VERY PLAUSABLE.


March 11 comeon get here baby. I gotta see if there is a red stapler on the desk in Houston. I wasn't playing very close attention during those scenes, 12 hrs is a long time to watch movies.

Does anybody know about the red stapler, was it there? That would be so cool if it was.

gotta get the book too.


4 snaps up in a circle and a little hot damn that was a great movie dance.

If you haven't seen it, by all means do.
 
and
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on the thread, I have been avoiding it so as not to ruin the movie. nice read, even the posts of those of y'all that are clueless.
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I saw it last night at Alamo Drafthouse. I have to admit I sorta spaced out in the ending monologue as well. I understand that the Coen bros. were not trying to make a hollywood ending.

And although we like Moss, he wasn't that good. How many innocent people died b/c of his greed? His wife, the old man in the hotel, and the guy in the pickup that he said "don't worry".

So who is the "main character"? Moss can't be; we didn't even see his last shootout. I guess TLJ; did he change in the movie? maybe so by realizing that this was no country for old men.....
 
Hmmm, I can picture Moss' onscreen death. Having commando dispatched Mexicans 1-13, Mexican #14 lands a lucky blow with a short dagger between the shoulder blades. Moss twists his head completely off his body, but the damage is done; crosscut to a blue wash of Moss walking, running his hands through his wheat fields. Celine Dion is singing "The Greatest Love of All" now, loudly. At the top of the hill, Moss' wife and young son stand before their Iberian mansion, smiling proudly. Moss smiles, too; the harvest will be good this year. So many olives!

A dove takes wing.

Cut back to the hotel room, where Moss falls to his knees, then his side, and expires, to the third movement of the William Tell Overture.

IMDB has some pretty cool stuff I didn't know. Hopefully this will make it onto the DVD:
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It probably looked like that in 1980, which is how they wanted it to look. It was renovated in the 80's and looks pretty nice. They intentionally made it look crappy for the film.
 
Texashorn, what's really allsome is when a newby spends a little time on this site before becoming the grammar police to those who have been around. You see, they give themselves enough time to become familiar with Hornfans inside jokes and then are able to avoid looking like idoits when they post.
 
Two things Locos. First: Are you assuming this newb has the stones to show up again? Second: are you suggesting we just 86 the coinflip for said newb?
 
The funny thing about the people who have a problem with Moss's abrupt departure and the ending is you can tell right away who hasn 't even sniffed a Cormac McCarthy book.
 
I really hope texashorn comes back.

As to the bridge, yes, as a matter of fact, I did see the movie. How the **** else did you think I knew anything about the Plaza?. And as you mentioned, some scenes on the bridge were filmed elsewhere. Why the **** would I assume the bridge scenes were filmed in LV (which has no bridge) as opposed to elsewhere? That's SOP for filmmakers.
 
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